Wednesday, 27 February 2019

Week 22 Results

The Aardvarks go top.

Athletico Phoenix 3 v 0 The Wateringhole Society
Cheese Makers 1 v 2 Aardvark Abacus
Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits
Markian United 2 v 4 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Real Muppets 5 v 4 Wheel Madrid
San Dimas High School 7 v 0 YTFIB
The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors
Trusted By Millions 0 v 0 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI


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TeamPWDLFADiffPts
1Aardvark Abacus22152551341747
2Fred West Landscape Gardening XI22143562332945
3Athletico Phoenix22106642321036
4The Wateringhole Society2211384338536
5Real Muppets2211294539635
6San Dimas High School2296751361533
7Nil Satis Nisi Optimum2210394943633
8Markian United22102104452-832
9The Fabulous Artisans22101114251-931
10Mega Buck Bandits228594341229
11The Cow-Faced Juniors2292114448-429
12Claymore Athletic FC228593947-829
13Cheese Makers2283113647-1127
14Wheel Madrid2281134251-925
15Trusted By Millions2272134248-623
16YTFIB2242162055-3514

Ady’s long unbeaten league run has delivered him to the top of the table. The Aardvarks were trailing to Cheese Makers after Kieran Trippier gifted Matthew’s team an own goal with six minutes left. Cleans from Vincent Kompany and Jamaal Lascelles meant Ady left Le Stade with all the points and that, combined with Fred’s result, means we have our first change of leader since week seven. Fred’s result was a goalless draw at struggling Trusted where Andre Gray missed the best chance of the game for Beef, hitting the keeper with the goal at his mercy.

There was also a change to third place. Athletico swapped places with the Wateringhole Society after beating those opponents 3-0. Demarai Gray opened the scoring after 10 minutes, having bags of space to slot in but the last 11 minutes were decisive. Virgil van Dijkscired two towering headers to keep him in the frame for player of the year. Brian will be rueing his poor start to the season which left him with just nine points after the first ten games. The Muppets second game of the week saw another high-scoring victory, 5-4 this time over Wheel Madrid. Sadio Mane scored twice in the first 20 minutes, the second a clever elevated back heel, and Laurent Koscielny’s deflected shot made it 3-0 just after the break. Jamie Vardy reduced the deficit but Davy Propper’s first of the season restored the advantage. Ashley Young pulled another one back for Wheels but Steve Mounie poked in for the Muppets in injury time which meant that two clean sheets for Wheels weren’t enough to grab a point.

YTFIB are in one of their occasional desperate runs at the moment. San Dimas added to Julian’s woes by sticking seven past them. Fabian Schar started the rout with a screamer that went in off a post, Romelu Lukaku added two more and Pedro fired through the keeper’s legs for 4-0. Schar was among the clean sheet getters too as my team notched up the biggest win of the season. Nil Satis overtook Markian after coming back from 2-0 down. Gylfi Sigurdsson had got both Markian goals but Dominic Calbert-Lewin got Paul S back in the game in injury time and cleans from Coleman, Danilo and Alonso clinched the Nil Satis win.

The Artisans made it 27 points out of 36 (the same as Athletico) with a 2-1 win over the CFJs. Chris and Co. took an early lead when Mesut Ozil did his clever kick the ball into the ground so it clears the advancing keeper thing but Ben hit back through Divock Origi on 66 minutes. The decider was Lucas Digne’s clean and the Artisans are now just a point pff the top half. Claymore beat Mega Bucks 2-1 to join Dave’s team on 29 points. New signing Sean Longstaff celebrated by getting the opening goal for Clive, firing in from the corner of the six-yard box seven minutes before the break. P-E Aubameyang replied for Dave just before the hour after he was given far too much space to race away and round the keeper but Sergio Augero rolled in a penalty at Claymore almost straight after that to give Clive the victory.

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